filmi fever...

rang de basanti...the flavor of the season...have seen it five times and it was only after the third time that i could breathe easy, as an aspiring film maker this film scared the living daylights out of me.....how did you make it??...hats off to the one or the ones who came up with the concept and the ones who made it into what can only be called a superb cinematic experience. this kind of a film is extremely difficult to make, about three years went into developing the script...its not easy to work on a project for three years without knowing what might happen. film making is a strange business anyway, for the amount it takes to make a film, one can buy a building somewhere which will stand for a long time, while your film can be history with two days of its release. anyways, a beautiful film, good performances, nice music, scenes seamlessly blending into each other.....but then.... a few objections over some glitches for which the director is responsible. first the scene where the heros of the film are introduced, opening beer bottles with kara, and then the mother of the hero, shown as an amritdhari, wearing a black thread on her fingers, for the well being of her son. the cfilm unit had stayed almost a month in amritsar for filming certain sequences, a little bit of fact finding could have rectified these things and the scenes could have been given a different treatment. "its only a film".....i know, but no....no no no, the director should have taken the trouble and done some research, which wouldn't have taken more than 15 minutes....but still, a wonderful film, superbly crafted, this is just the third or fourth film i have seen in the past two years, and i am happy that i did...